Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

THE Pratt County Register says that
an army of two hundred carpenters are
busy with saws and hammers putting
up new houses in that growing city.
THE fight between Leoti and Coro-
nado for county seat of Wichita county
still continues. The governor has rec
OgniZed the former as the county seat,
but the latter seems to have IL hope
that they will evidently triumph.
WE acknowledge the reception OF
the h,dust,ialiSt, published by the print
ing department of the State Agricul-
turaI college at Manhattan. 1t is Il
newsy little sheet devoted, as its name
indicates, to the interests of the
farmer.
The Kingman Daily Courier is exult-
ing over the victory for the bonds in
that county. The city of Kingman
cast l 1886 for the proposition, or rather
propositions, for there were three roads
asking for bonds at the same time, and
each received what it asked.
PUCK says that the bottom of an
archism in America is laziness, pure
and simple, and Puck is very near the
truth when it says it. Let your raving
anarchist fall heir to ten thousand and
he becomes the most vehement stickler
for law and order the country can pro-
duce.
THE Denver Republican is authority
for the statement that Mexico is on a
boom. Just how long the Greasers
will permit boom to go on is one of
the uncertainties. but it seems absO-
lutely certain that they are getting a
number of new lines of railroad which
is having a beneficial effect on that
unprogreSSive country.
On the sixth page of this paper will
be found an extract from HdTper'S
Weekly, concerning Senator Sherman s
Nashville speech, which will be read
by all true democrats with pleasure.
Nothing confirms the opinion of all
fair-thinking men that the present adj
ministration is the best we have ever
had, more than the sentiments ex-
pressed by the nations leaders, con-
corning the late civil war.
THE Larned Daily ChrOnOScope IL a
recent editorial gives some wholesome
advice to the citizens of that city. II
seems that Larned like Great Bend, is
so unfortunate as to have one OF two
factions who are forever waging wal
OH each other. Each of the factions is
always ready to deride whatever is at
tempted by the other and the result is
strangers are frequently Disguised and
leave the town without making any
purchases. This is good deal like
some of Great Bends experience.
AN election will be held in Rush
county June 21st, to decide which
shall be the county seat, La Crosse OF
Walnut City. 1t is generally uuder-
stood that LA Crosse has the lead in
the race. However, this is matter
on which one can prophesy much bet
ter after than before the election. The
good people of the two rival cities are
to be complimented on the quiet and
orderly manner in which the canvass
has so far proceeded. Nothing is more
hurtful to the interest of county
than the unseemly brawls which have
lately disgraced several western coun-
counties.
THE population of the United States
is being augmented at the rate of 1000
day by the arrivals of immigrants in
New York alone. Each of these immi-
grants, the Commissioners of Immigra-
tion estimate, brings S23. That is to
say, by way of New York, the nation
will this year receive an addition of
$50, 900 to its population, and of So 1896,
900 to its wealth. Each item repre-
sents an important gain, which any
other country in the world except ours
would feel highly grantified to acquire.
But the United States is not going into
raetIres just now at receiving them.
Every person coming who respects the
2aws, however, will be treated fairly,
but anarchists and nihilist will be